Themes: Rise and Fall Stories, Starting Over, Musician's Life
Main Cast: Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, Cecil Kellaway, Peter Leeds
Release Year: 1955
Country: US
Run Time: 106 minutes
Plot
Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. Eleanor Parker plays Ms. Farrell, while her vocal renditions, ranging from selections from Madame Butterfly to MGM's own Over the Rainbow, were dubbed by Eileen Farrell, who would be with the Met from 1960-1966. The story traces Marjorie's long, hard road to the top, her success on two continents, and her turbulent marriage to American doctor Thomas King. While touring South America, Lawrence is stricken with polio, which not only abruptly ends her career but briefly robs her of the will to live. The rest of the film is devoted to Ms. Lawrence's emergence from depression and her triumphant comeback. William Ludwig and Sonya Levien shared an Academy Award for their cinemadaptation of Marjorie Lawrence's autobiography. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Evelyn Ellis - Clara; Walter S. Baldwin - Jim Owens; Ann Codee - Madame Gilly; Leopold Sachse - Himself; Stephen Bekassy - Comte Claude des Vigneux; André Charlot - M. Bertrand; Sandy Descher - Suzie; Eileen Farrell - Vocal student; Alex Frazer - Adjudicator; Fiona Hale - Eileen Lawrence; Charles R. Keane - Ted Lawrence; Doris Lloyd - Volunteer Worker; Paul McGuire - Metropolitan Cashier; Doris Merrick - Nurse; Jack Raine - Mr. Norson; Penny Santon - Gilly Secretary; Claude Stroud - Tenor; Stuart Whitman - Man on Beach; Frieda Stoll - Accompanist; Dick Simmons
Credit
Daniel B. Cathcart - Art Director, Cedric Gibbons - Art Director, Helen Rose - Costume Designer, Curtis Bernhardt - Director, John D. Dunning - Editor, Adolph Deutsch - Composer (Music Score), Saul Chaplin - Musical Direction/Supervision, Adolph Deutsch - Musical Direction/Supervision, Walter Du Cloux - Musical Direction/Supervision, Harold Gelman - Musical Direction/Supervision, Vladimir Rosing - Musical Direction/Supervision, Joseph Ruttenberg - Cinematographer, Paul Vogel - Cinematographer, Jack Cummings - Producer, Marjorie Lawrence - Screenwriter, Sonya Levien - Screenwriter, William Ludwig - Screenwriter, Marjorie Lawrence - Book Author
